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By Bill Tierney Lincoln University in Pennsylvania has instituted a mandatory fitness class (AP article).  The historically black university is concerned about the high rates of obesity and diabetes in the African American community.   This requirement has raised the hackles of many students and received a fair amount of press at home and abroad.  Given [...]

21st Century Scholar wishes everyone a happy and safe holiday. We will be posting again come Monday morning. Until then.

by Bill Tierney UC students are understandably bent out of shape that the Regents have raised their tuition again, and this time a jaw-dropping 32%.  My guess is that the legislature will dither, propose gimmicks, and cut even further, which in turn will have the Regents propose another fee hike, this time around 18%.  They [...]

by Randy Clemens “No such thing / as innocent / bystanding,” declares one of the speakers in Seamus Heaney’s “Mycenae Lookout,” a magnificent (and nightmarish) poem about the horrors of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon. Heaney crafted the centerpiece of The Spirit Level during a period of peace in Ireland. The Provisional IRA enacted a cease-fire in 1994. Sinn Fein [...]

by Bill Tierney The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities Frank Donoghue, a professor of English at Ohio State, is sad about the Humanities.  Although he rightly points out that we’ve been hand-wringing about this fate for a century, by the middle of the book he’s really down in the [...]

*This post originally appears on my blog: http://ahnjune.com/?p=142 I’ve learned a nice lesson during my dissertation. Lessons that bring me back to my days as a teacher and technology director. What is the lesson? Educational technology requires a complex level of policy, organizational, and classroom change in order to be effective.  The task appears daunting [...]

by Bill Tierney In the seemingly interminable debate about health care, much ado is made about “the public option.”  Liberals believe that such an option will help drive costs down, and that it will enable individuals who otherwise might be denied health care to get it from the government.  Conservatives believe that such an option [...]

by Zoe Corwin My three year old son recently told me that gourds can be made into instruments.  “Gourds?! How did you learn about gourds?” I asked him.  “Elmo” he replied, with a straight face.  What a revolution Sesame Street must have been in 1969 when the images and quirky sounds of large puppets reached [...]

by Mark Marino Below is the class projects, described by Erica Mau and Marissa Honda, students in Writing 340: Advanced Writing for Arts and Humanities.  This project is based on an growing movement that might be called curricular emergency preparedness.  Their words follow: Before every plane takes off the runway, flight attendants walk through the [...]

by Mark Marino Here’s the last of the articles about the student projects, written by Raksha “Rocky” Pradhan in Writing 340: Advanced writing for Arts and Humanities. THE LONG DISTANCE PLAY This fall semester, Mark Marino’s Writing 340 class has decided to participate in a service project that will reach out to St. Mary Kevin [...]